In a recent interview with The New York Times, US Vice President J.D. Vance noted: “I think one of the criticisms that I get from the right is that I am insufficiently committed to the capital-M market.” Vance made clear his belief that “the market economy is the best way of provisioning goods and services and coordinating people across a very complex society,” but the market, in his view, is a “tool,” rather than “the purpose of American politics.”Is he right? Is the market merely a tool – a means to an end? Or should a free and well-functioning market be an end in itself?
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